#2657 · 🦋 butterflies & moths

Twin-spotted Quaker

🇳🇱 Dubbelstipvoorjaarsuil ·Orthosia munda

🦋 Butterflies & moths 📍 in the Netherlands

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Paolo Mazzei · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Andrew Lamb · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Barry Walter · CC BY 4.0
4. Assen, Nederland:© Gerben ter Haar · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. De Marne, Groningen, Netherlands:© Michael Bakker Paiva · CC BY 4.0
6. Noordwijkerhout, Nederland:© Michel Langeveld · CC BY 4.0
7. Amsterdam, Oude Haagseweg:© peterschiphof · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. 6874 Wolfheze, Nederland:© André Nagelhout · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. Grebbeberg, Rhenen, Utrecht, NL:© no rights reserved · CC0
10. Groesbeek, Nederland:© Herman Berteler · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The twin-spotted Quaker ( Perigrapha munda ) is a species of moth of the family Noctuidae. The wings are gray, with two closely approximate and very conspicuous dark spots on the disc of the fore wings. a small dark apical mark at the costal edge and a discal spot on the fuscous hindwings. It is found in Palearctic ecozone (All Europe (absent only in the North and in the South), Russia, Asia as far east as Japan).

base stats

NL sightings 84iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 4,497iNaturalist observations

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).